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Ekaterina Balashova

B1 Director Moscow

Private Client Services, Tax, Law and Business Support. Focus on international, personal and corporate tax planning services for private clients

Professional experience

  • Ekaterina has over 15 years of experience in consulting high-net-worth clients

  • She focuses on services to private clients covering international, personal and corporate tax planning, structuring personal and family assets, and adopting innovative techniques to respond to regulatory initiatives in Russia

  • Ekaterina’s clients include shareholders and top management of major Russian and international companies

  • She has substantial experience in coordinating projects to consult clients on taxation of securities transactions in Russia and compliance with Russian currency legislation and regulations on controlled foreign companies (CFC)

  • Ekaterina has successfully led projects that involved the forced conversion of depositary receipts, the forced transfer of securities to Russia, including the transfer from a CFC to an individual, and the recovery of dividends frozen in Russia that relate to securities of Russian companies held in foreign accounts

Competencies

  • Consulting on withholding tax at source and the application of tax benefits under double tax treaties and the concept of beneficial owner of income

  • Consulting on current restrictions and how to use foreign bank accounts

  • Consulting on structuring private wealth, tax planning in various countries, pre-immigration tax planning and intergenerational wealth planning

  • Consulting on Russian and international tax aspects of securities transactions, forward transactions and repo transactions

  • Assistance with the preparation and filing of personal tax, CFC and currency reporting

  • Providing CFC advice (establishment, liquidation, tax-free asset transfer to Russia, etc.)

Education

  • Graduate of MEPhI National Research Nuclear University with a major in Finance and Credit

  • Currently pursuing a Master of Laws degree at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

  • Certified Tax Consultant

  • Certified Financial Consultant, certificate 1.0 issued by the Federal Financial Markets Service

"Referring to the popular phrase by William Petty, “What annoys people most is that they pay more taxes than their neighbors,” I can add, for myself, that it is definitely about the neighbors who get advice from B1."

Ekaterina Balashova

B1 Director, Private Client Services, Tax, Law and Business Support

Ekaterina Balashova